Chapter 57: Unrest

There were three scenes recorded in this video. The first was that of Zanshin and a Shielder called EggFriedRice.

In the footage, the shield in EggFriedRice’s hands shone a brilliant red light as it rammed into an Automaton Mantis, and when the sparks flew the scene camera angle changed quickly.

That Automaton Mantis was sent flying into another one, and the camera quickly panned over to the elemental mage Zanshin that was standing behind the two monsters.

Zanshin’s ruby eyes flashed dangerously as icy blue runes appeared on his hands. Along with a smile, the runes quickly bore frost and ice, and the camera panned out again as icicles bloomed from the ground. The moment the Automaton Mantises were pierced by the icicles they were frozen immediately, and the scene ended.

Frost Banquet 1 was a skill that Elemental Mages could only learn at Level 38, and Zanshin probably learned it by using some special piece of equipment.

That being said, this was actually just a regular scene of a Shielder crowd controlling monsters and the Elemental Mage killing them, but…

“This video is so cool…”

“Did Abyssal Shrine bring along their own cameraman? This is completely on the level of a promotional CG.”

“Do we have this sort of cameraman?”

InkFlashback listened to his party talk about how the cameramanship and the rhythm of the video wasn’t something that could be created by the regular cameraman.

This video that was made by the official developers recorded the highlights of the battle, from the angles to the fast pacing of the video to the effects of the skill itself, the moment Zanshin used Frost Banquet it seemed like he was a legendary caster that could destroy everything with a flick of his hand.

This sort of video had only ever appeared in the promotional videos of games, and it was the sort of video that would make the random watcher want to play the game immediately.

InkFlashback logged onto YouRabbit and found the video called [Tower of Trials-First Floor Sacred Record holder Abyssal Shrine].

There were only still a few danmaku comments on the video, but InkFlashback knew that the screen would quickly be filled with danmaku comments like ‘Strongest editor’, ‘Don’t trick me with a promotional CG!’.

“Do we have one of these?” A player remembered that they had broken the record earlier and asked.

“No we don’t…” InkFlashback searched on the official web, but he couldn’t see the Jumping Nucleons guild anywhere. All of the records were taken by the Abyssal Shrine guild.

“Boss, why don’t we try breaking the record again? We can’t just take this lying down!” IonPlasma said.

“I think you just want to get your own video.” SingingInTheRain quickly saw his true motive.

“Don’t you? This is the first time I saw a player’s fight get used as a promotional video!”

Smart.

InkFlashback watched the video a few more times, and even with his experience in gaming for all these years, he was still so moved by this video that he wanted to battle a few more times.

No matter how skilled and well renowned the Jumping Nucleons guild was, it was filled with a bunch of players with an average age of around twenty years old. Even InkFlashback himself was only twenty-seven years old.

As a player and a young one at that, what would one want the most?

A chance to act cool, of course.

Each and every player would never miss the chance to show off. Like getting a pentakill in MOBA games, or taking first place on the battlefield and recording the footage of their game so that they could show off to everyone…

InkFlashback knew better than anyone how depressing it was to not have anyone see or know when he did something especially spectacular.

But the MVP system of this game seemed to be a great help to him, and all the players who loved to show off.

It would record the skilled moves of the players in game, and preserve them all with movie-grade editing and camerawork.

Who could resist that!

InkyFlashback thought that if the MVP system were released earlier, a whole bunch of players would be thinking of how to make flashy moves whenever they entered the dungeons.

The most important was that it was uploaded for everyone to see on the official site!

There were probably a whole bunch of people refreshing the official page endlessly right now!

InkFlashback knew that if they broke a Sacred Record, and even all the Sacred Records in the game, how scary the popularity and honor it would bring to their guild!

Of course, they would have to break all the records in the first place!

“We will fight!” InkFlashback hadn’t felt this hot-blooded in a long time.

“I knew I could count on you boss!” IonPlasma shouted, but InkFlashback’s next sentence caught him off guard.

“IonPlasma and FluffyRabbit go rest first. If we have to break the record, we would have to change our members.”

“Huh? Boss, what are you saying?! Aren’t I the one with the highest Attack in the team?” IonPlasma was still hung up on getting an MVP, but before he could carry out his plans he was kicked out by InkFlashback.

“That record isn’t our limit. If we have to beat Abyssal Shrine, we would have to make a record that they would never be able to beat. You and FluffyRabbit’s skills are still…Insufficient.” InkFlashback thought for a while before speaking slowly.

“He’s saying that we’re noobs!” FluffyRabbit quickly understood what InkFlashback meant.

“If we’re noobs, then is Boss going to invite two more professionals?”

IonPlasma didn’t continue complaining. InkFlashback was the coach of the professional club and SingingInTheRain was a retired professional player, and who knows how many more pros they knew.

“I’d have to ask… Also, I’ve read the rules of the sacred records and as long as more than half the party is a part of a certain guild the name of the guild would be left on the sacred record, so asking for outside help is allowed.”

“Abyssal Shrine wouldn’t have pulled their professionals to break the record with them too, would they?” IonPlasma knew that the same option was open to the other guild too.

“They’re already doing so. Zanshin and Eyeless are both retired pros, and a warrior called Anemia and a sniper called WhiteEye are probably going to appear later on. If that’s the case, then it would be their all-star team.”

Another reason why Abyssal Shrine was called an evil organization was because their game IDs were mostly related to disabilities.

“Is the healer called MetalPlate coming too?” IonPlasma asked again.

“Probably.”

“Why is this dungeon record like an all-star battle from War?” FluffyRabbit grumbled softly.

“The flame of battle has been ignited, so of course every guild is going to give their all. If it weren’t for the fact I’m afraid of getting my salary deducted by our boss, I would have already pulled all our current players here already…That’s just a random thought of course.”

Footnotes:

Ch 57 Footnote 1

This skill 极冰盛宴 might possibly be Ice Trap from Dungeon Fighter Online… Looks highly similar